ACE eddie award predictions & actuals

OK, predictions and actuals. Why am I doing this? Someone, leave a comment! Validate me! I should be studying. Or sleeping. My test is in 10 hours! Anyway, here we go:

BEST EDITED DRAMATIC FILM
Babel
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen
United 93
(alt. Letters from Iwo Jima)

...and the shocker was: Casino Royale.

I forgot, alas, that spicily edited populist films like Royale can actually score here. Good on them. And good choices in this category, in general. Bad news for Clint Eastwood, though... that strategy of his totally TOTALLY backfired. Zero attention from the guilds. Zero.

BEST EDITED COMEDY/MUSICAL FILM
Borat
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
A Prairie Home Companion
(alt. Thank You For Smoking)

...and the shocker was: Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Alas, I also forgot that mediocre but REALLY popular blockbusters can also be nominated here. Oh well. And I haven't seen Thank You For Smoking, so maybe the editing's good, but I can't help but feel like Prairie was totally robbed here. Annoying. And what happened to Borat? Curious.

Anyway, I assume these two awards will ultimately go to Dreamgirls (sigh) and The Departed. Hopefully the oscar goes to the latter. We'll see...